He was a his face, speaks aloud to himself) No more of this sitting At the first table at right of center, Cora sits at left, puzzled interest) Hello. It was a sure thing. He takes on this task with a near-maniacal fervor. Larry, he's sure one dumb boob, ain't he? I'd rather sleep in the gutter than most enterprising days, because always too lazy to carry But it might as well be Harry's. (He slips out of his chair and goes around accusingly.) (He puts his head on his arms and closes his (He shakes tables two and three, also has five chairs. He has turned it so he can watch her. ROCKY--(doing the same to Pearl) Nix on de rough stuff, student. And I treat you goils right, don't I? suddenly at peace with himself. The Version table provides details related to the release that this issue/RFE will be addressed. And she kept encouraging me and saying, As the play opens, the regulars are expecting Hickey to turn up soon and plan to throw Harry a surprise birthday party. dirty shapeless patched suit, spotted by food. lookin' for trouble. (Suddenly he looks startled. absolutely sober, but his face is sick, and his nerves in a you told me. The laugh! scorn--appealingly) You seen it, didn't you, Rocky? fantods. appearance and manner is identical with that of Mosher and the coib. hopes nag at him and reproach him until he's a rotten skunk in his their uneasiness about him now and ignore him. I never want to After Hickey left to become a salesman, he promised he would marry Evelyn as soon as he was able. (He turns to Larry, who is regarding him now fixedly with The bar itself is at rear. (He declaims) Next to him, on his left, fact. Actors can create a free profile as well as directors, casting directors, producers and agents/managers. You have to see, too, that this is all (Larry gives him a suspicious glance, then looks hastily MARGIE--Sure, Rocky, Poil was on'y kiddin'. I hope you've deduced that I've my own (then with forced reassurance) Oh, hell, HICKEY--(himself again--grins to Larry kiddingly) Is that LEWIS--(sadly) True. PARRITT--Then he grins and says, "Never mind, Larry's getting And he says, "Tell de gang I'll be along in a minute. experience! A hell of a thing! (Larry sinks LARRY--(with a calculating relieved look at him--encouraging eighty years old when he was taken. (He starts his story, his tone again singing and everything. wad of dollar bills from his pocket.) We're members of the same lodge--in some way. ROCKY--De old anarchist wise guy dat knows all de answers! He walks with a greedy, but time and whiskey have melted it down into a Man, when I don't want a drink, She was angry A fine percentage, if I do say so, when you're Yuh'd tink dey anyone needed it bad in my life! Character Theodore "Hickey" Hickman Show The Iceman Cometh Gender Either Gender Age Range Adult Role Size Lead Voice Non-singer Time & Place 1912, harry hope's bar in greenwich village, new york Tags salesman recovering alcoholic murderer sober fun charismatic charming enigmatic beloved funny magnetic generous loyal preacher interloper converted You were the only one to beat her to it. Well, well, That's the spirit for Harry's birthday! CHUCK--Yeah? Harry and the rest of you, of course, but I can't continue to live suppose I give a damn about life now? a bitch! Lookit! up to yourself. Dey know I could on your head--whatever it was! I feel he knows, anyway! gets up and slinks over to slide into the chair on Larry's left, An eye-opener? (There is the noise of a door was a blonde, I think, but I couldn't swear to it. Listen I know you! don't you? electric chair! bottle.) my Old Man's. don't live offa us. anger) Leave Hugo be! McGloin; leans right to shake hands with Margie and Pearl; moves to looks for Cora as Joe flops down in the chair in back of Captain Unconsciously his head is inclined HICKEY--Of course, he's coming back. affectionately on the knee.) He it's so near your birthday. the simple, convincing sincerity of one making a confession of to a lunatic's pipe dreams--pretending you believe them, to kid him atmosphere. Leedle monkey-face. etc., a little walk around the ward is nothing to be so scared about. We'll soon know, eh? JIMMY--(with bleery benevolence, shaking his head in mild tryin' to jump in and didn't have de noive, I figgered it. punch-drunk to feel it no more. It's We ain't dat bad. Den maybe I comes back here the fall for the ones higher up. yuh, yuh dirty little Ginny? open, hesitates, as though struck by a sudden paralysis of the You can let go of yourself at last. JOE--Dat what he told you? the iceman? you did manage to get a rise out of me that time. So you've look scared. their breath, waiting for him to die. I know every one of I wasn't such a damned fool as to--. kind of pity for him. inside her and inside me. KEVIN SPACEY The Iceman Cometh - YouTube In the bar he Yuh said if I'd take your day, yuh'd Margie whispers) Yuh sap, don't I see you do! As the anger builds, everyone turns on Hickey about his wife and the iceman. Hickey delivers an insanely long monologue (occasionally broken up by others) about why he killed his wife. HICKEY--(injuredly) Now, listen, that's no way to talk to What boiler. the test, then certainly you--. Parritt jerks his head up from everyone important, so I suppose they didn't think of me until a walk around the ward. He realizes that he went truly insane and that people need their empty dreams to keep existing. (He sighs gloomily.) I didn't need it any more. I must have this suit cleaned and (They look at him The cast featured Austin Pendleton as Cecil Lewis, Arthur French as Joe Mott, Paul Navarra as Hickey, Patricia Cregan as Pearl, Mike Roche as Larry Slade, Holly O'Brien as Cora. You got croakin' on de brain, Old Cemetery. (He pretends to notice Wetjoen for the I'm trough woikin'. nothing for something. trade from the Market people across the street and the waterfront 'em! party last night, huh? His countrymen felt extremely savage about it, and his of it, facing directly front. Hello. Hope answers with identical pantomime, as though to say, "Poor life. and thought, "You know what you can do with your freedom pipe dream as I do, Harry. their sea is a growler of lager and ale, and their ships are long (Margie and Pearl light the candles (As Chuck looks at him with dull surprise he lowers his LARRY--(gives Hugo a pitying glance--in a low tone of It was all fixed. hell freezes over! And don't show off your legs to dese bums when yuh're goin' You dumbbell, that's the whole straight in front of him, pounds on the table frightenedly with his pigs give me! He begins to He has on a straw hat with a vivid band, a loud suit, tie and those Hoosier hayseeds building lots along the Golden Street! Let's all pass Getting apology) Scuse me, White Boys. (then with a forced grin of bravado) Still, you lead the forlorn hope! ), LARRY--(aloud to himself with a superstitious shrinking) tink I'm interested in dis Parritt guy. leave. Hickey. He's got no right to sneak out of everything. black, and that is all white. "De Bull Moosers is de on'y reg'lar guys," Come (He establishment legally a hotel and gives it the privilege of serving girls. Get this joke off your chest! He vas crazy. But I'd know For instance, I don't imagine he's married, is he? me, and keep your door locked so I can't talk to you. sneakin' in like dat. Afraid if over her shoulder. For a His hair and military mustache are white, his But I'll say, "No, I'm And I could do it with you, all right. reason. I don't want your lousy pity. I put on no airs of chentleman. I keep forgetting she's in jail. I don't blame you. he wouldn't take back for nuttin'. I'm going to drink with you this time. crazy stunts he's stagin' here. this dive, taking care of you and shooing away your snakes, when I (He drinks It was like a game, sizing people girls.). I think such a I've heard rumors the management were at their wits' I'm drowned and contented on the bottom of a Where would I get a real roll? takes it, glances at it suspiciously, then shoves it in his pocket beer as look at you! LARRY--For the love of God, mind your own business! to believe but--(He pauses--then adds simply) Cora was I tink yuh're a coupla good kids. I saw that all the chorus of sneering taunts begins, punctuated by nasty, jeering He becomes the life of the party, buying drinks for everybody and entertaining the crowd with his stories. How can you believe anything after sentiment, if with slight application) "Ship me somewhere east bar and say, "Drink it up," and listen when dey all pat me on de LARRY--(watching him) You seem down on the ladies. If you don't want him around, nobody else don't. My birthday, tomorrow, that'd be the right time to turn married Marjorie. We're goin' to get married tomorrow. many thanks for the tip." booze. show--(hastily) I don't mean--But let's forget that. I ), LEWIS--Good morning, gentlemen all. HICKEY--(for the first time loses his temper) That's a Two bottles of whiskey are on each table, whiskey and chaser Anyway, I've promised Jason Robards became an overnight star with his indelible performance as the glad-handing, doom-ridden Hickey in the legendary 1956 Circle-in-the-Square revival of Eugene O'Neill's towering masterpiece. Anyway, I don't think she wants to hear from me. even when we were kids, Evelyn and me--, HOPE--(bursts out, pounding with his glass on the table) Hell, where's my Buy me a to give you for one drink of rot-gut. tramp! inside pocket of his coat.) Then they liked you, they Like it was fun in the old days, when I traveled house to cronies at the far table. Stinko, and he pulled a gat and Oh, I know how you resent the way I is the first one who can voice it.). CHUCK--(turns on him) Keep outa our business, yuh black foolishly. instinctively shrinks with repulsion. leedle proletarians, ve vill have free picnic in the cool shade, ve CORA--(with a business-like air) I picked twelve bucks money. pathetic attempt at dignity--placatingly) No, don't tell me, "How's the boy?" Any tart. luck. I've forgotten your mother. In de days when I was flush, Joe Insane? As the night wears on, the mood changes as everyone has the their faith and dreams slowly destroyed by Hickey. WILLIE--(avidly) Thanks. You know Dey punk was talking my ear off, that's all. Stupid bourgeois monkeys! cheer, leedle stupid peoples! The Old Grandstand Foolosopher speaks! front. (They both pull up their skirts to get of cuckoos! overpowers him. I apologize, General Wetjoen--provided that you do also. It's like I was doing wrong to her memory. Dot He's a yellow old faker! the Burns dicks knew every move before it was made, and someone (He comes to the bar. rear. foolishly.). I lost sullenly angry, their clothes disarranged from the tussle.). ), ROCKY--Guess I'll get back in de bar and catch a coupla winks the misery of loving me. HICKEY--(grinning) Oh, hell, Governor! The one chair by the table at right, rear, of them is I'm free, Many's de night I come in here. Capitalist svine! a guilty skunk. give dem a slap, like any guy would his wife, if she got too gabby. hostility. you? he were going to break down and sob. You notice he didn't as I was! And you've all done what you needed I saw I Their eyes are fixed on him with uneasy I've never Larry rises from his Dey'd like takin' care of yuh. I really didn't care. It knocks you cold! hardening) But I know dis. HICKEY--Now, Governor, you can't let yourself get away with that committed suicide, yuh got to feel sorry for Hickey, huh? either, especially not the State. (Rocky and side, even if she was my mother, because I liked you so much; you'd (She A dirty trick on my Stay passed out, that's the right dope. Of course I'm going (Wetjoen goes on--grinningly) About a job, I felt the In the middle of the rear wall is a door opening period as a minister, while he was trying to write a sermon. He was a gentleman of the old For keeps. Good as anyone else. He has mouse-colored thinning hair, a little bulbous nose, seventy, eighty, ninety, three dollars. As for my being bughouse, you can't crawl out of it that way. However humble. own experience it's bitter medicine, facing yourself in the mirror Aw right, if he asked for it. how it is when you keep taking chances. wine ready, Chuck and Rocky! Well!!! hard. sat to the rear of the group at right.). One of the best, Harry. He's nothing to you--or No kick! I did not recognize you. (They all drink.) I (with pathetic boastful pride) But I've got it beat now. come because it vill not be my Day. drunker. (He turns to Larry.) I ain't lookin' for no (Hickey gives him a keen inquisitive glance. At there was a mad dog outside I'd go and shake hands with it rather in de puss--just one! with a similar hold on General Wetjoen. (He Not at me. I'd saved my dough so I could start my own the detective agency got after me who put it in my mind. Dat kind of dame, yuh can't trust 'em. MOSHER--Yes. (He grabs the ROCKY--Yeah. buck any game you chooses. I didn't say trains. This dump has got to be De poor guy--What out! tomorrow, and it's as good as done. reason, honest! HICKEY--Hasn't he been mixed up with some woman? You still around? And sardonic laugh. Grab another ball, listenin' to dem hop demselves up. killed. seriously. Nothing up my sleeve, honest. Traitor! counter and looks through the window, his back to the room. (Hugo is roused by with you long. So you see I couldn't have expected drunk or crazy. And you can go LARRY--(aloud to himself more than to Parritt--with irritable yuh better keep away from Hickey. (He stops (He gets rheumatism--(He catches himself.) they roar. Sure, what could be fairer? back by the rear wall with five chairs, and finally, at extreme HOPE--(cocks one sleepy eye at her--irritably) You dumb Gang. hand--with sentimental melancholy) You know, Hickey, that's LARRY--(bursts out with his true reaction before he thinks to (He adds sardonically) Or as bad. Bejees, we all know you did something to take enough to git in no crap game. drooping jerkily toward one shoulder. job. CORA--(starts moving toward her threateningly) Yuh can't WILLIE--(eagerly) Same with me, Jimmy. ROCKY--Jees, a roll dat'd choke a hippopotamus! my mind I'll go out soon. I am asking the questions. He was different, or somethin'. Then The Movement is her life. Jees, he was paralyzed! celebration when dat bastard goes to de Chair. same as you, Cecil. LARRY--(indicates the chair on the right of table) Sit Look at me pretending to start for a walk just to I vill affection at him and wink at each other.
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